Senior Dynamics 365 Power Platform Developer Job

Job Summary:
The Senior Developer role at CFSA is a hands-on technical lead position responsible for building, releasing, and supporting the STAAND system, a federally certified Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure. The role involves daily coding, CI/CD and ALM ownership, quality reviews, production support, and direct collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure the solution meets operational needs.
Responsibilities:
• Design and develop complex solutions including Dataverse plug-ins, custom APIs, PCF controls, client extensions, Power Fx, Azure Functions, and Logic Apps.
• Build and maintain integrations across Government Community Cloud and commercial cloud boundaries.
• Optimize platform performance and implement portal functionalities including authentication and permissions.
• Develop and maintain automated testing coverage including unit, integration, and UI regression tests.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, ALM processes, branching strategies, environment hygiene, and release engineering.
• Conduct code reviews enforcing coding standards, security, performance, and test coverage.
• Provide production support, including triage, root cause analysis, monitoring, and incident response.
• Engage directly with social workers, supervisors, agency partners, and training teams for requirements gathering, demos, UAT support, and change communication.
• Mentor and transfer knowledge to government staff and other developers.
Required Skills & Certifications:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field.
• 16 years of progressive software development experience with at least 10 years hands-on Dynamics 365 CE, Dataverse, and Power Platform development.
• Proficiency with C#/.NET plug-in and custom API development for Dataverse (5 years).
• Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript client extensions and PCF control development (5 years).
• Technical lead experience managing development teams (4 years).
• Expertise in Azure DevOps pipeline authoring and ownership (YAML, multi-stage) (4 years).
• Power Platform ALM knowledge including solution layering, environment variables, and managed deployments (4 years).
• Pull request review and merge authority experience on protected branches (4 years).
• Production support ownership with defined severity tiers and SLAs (4 years).
• Azure development experience including Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, and Key Vault (4 years).
• Automated testing skills for unit, integration, and UI regression tests (4 years).
• Power Pages/portal development including web roles and table permissions (3 years).
• Experience managing live systems through Microsoft biannual release waves (3 years).
• Direct engagement with non-technical business users for requirements and UAT (2 years).
• Secure development practices including code-level security review, secrets management, and PII/PHI handling (4 years).
• Government cloud delivery experience (GCC, GCC High, or Azure Government) (3 years).
• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400).
• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
Preferred Skills & Certifications:
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204).
• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600).
• Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Customer Service (MB-230) or Sales Functional Consultant (MB-210).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102).
• GitHub Actions or GitHub Advanced Security certification.
• CSSLP (ISC²) certification.
• ITIL 4 Foundation certification.
• Infrastructure as code experience with Bicep, ARM, or Terraform (2 years).
• Generative AI integration experience such as Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI, or Azure AI Foundry (1 year).
• Data and reporting skills including Power BI, Fabric, Synapse, and Data Factory (3 years).
• Experience mentoring and capability transfer to government staff (3 years).
Special Considerations:
• Must participate in escalation rotation for critical production incidents, including outside core hours.
• Operate within a Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenant and maintain compliance with government cloud policies.
• Strict adherence to security practices including handling of PII/PHI and secrets management.
• Compliance with CAI management approval for absences greater than two weeks.
• Hybrid work model requiring 4 days onsite per week.
• No reimbursable expenses allowed.
• Candidate submissions must comply with vendor hourly rate limits.
Scheduling:
• Work schedule follows a hybrid model with 4 days onsite per week at the Washington DC location.
• Availability for production support escalation outside core business hours as needed.
• Contract period from November 23, 2026 to September 30, 2027.